Southern Cannonball chords by Hank Snow

Chords with lyrics

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I had to quit railroading we didn't agree at all

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There was always something wrong with the Southern Cannonball

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I once loved a maiden she was fair and tall

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Her poppa he was the engineer on the Southern Cannonball


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She promised she would wed me in the merry month of June

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And go to the magic island to spend our honeymoon

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Alas my dreams were shattered when she put me off with a stall

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She said the whistle was broken on the Southern Cannonball

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I loved this girl so dearly so I fixed the whistle back

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The next thing she told me was the caboose is off of the track

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But days and nights I labored to get it back with the train

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Always ready for my highball when the bell refused to ring


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I fixed the bell in a jiffy and I called the preacher Dunn

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Who married us in the old boxcar for the train refused to run

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We made our home in a boomer shack out under the southern sky

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And we rocked the baby to sleep each night by a train whistle lullaby